Setup RANCID and ViewVC (Part One)
KB ID 0001331 Problem There are couple of good posts out there on setting up Rancid (Really Awesome New Cisco Config Differ). Some even show you how to set it up with ViewVC (Formally ViewVCS, basically a nice web based GUI front end, that does version control and highlights differences). It does this using a system called CVS (Concurrent Version System, hence the original name.) Then I had to do some more searching to get it to back...
CentOS 7 – Serving HTTPS with Apache2
KB ID 0001210 Problem This week I’ve been working on changing the site over to https. Buying a digital certificate used to be an expensive long winded affair, but not anymore. A quick internet search turned up a 3 year SSL certificate for less than 15 quid. Getting the certificate was the easy bit, getting it installed so that Apache would use it was another ‘challenge’. On a scale of one to ten, I’m about a...
Can I delete _vti_inf.html and the _vti folders?
KB ID 0000742 Problem I was doing some site tidying this week, usually If I don’t know what something is I leave it alone, but I was on a mission! I had a bunch of files/folders in the root of my website, that, a) I didn’t know what they were doing, and b) wanted to delete. File: _vti_inf Folders: _private, _vti_bin, _vti_cnf, _vti_log, vti_pvt, _vti_txt Solution As it turns out these folders are needed for FrontPage and...
RSS Error – Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF8”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII”
KB ID 0000889 Problem I don’t validate and check the sites RSS feed as often as I should, but post server migration I got this error; This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations. Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF8”, but your sever is reporting “US-ASCII” Solution As you can see by the section I’ve...
Google Analytics – Redundant Hostnames
(Redirecting non www URL’s to www URL’s) KB ID 0001016 Problem I noticed this a while back, apparently Google Analytics started flagging this for many users on October 14th 2014. But I’ve only just got round to sorting it out. If you are seeing this error its because your site is ‘addressable’ in more than one way, in my case you could get to me via http://petenetlive and http://www.petenetlive.com. I...